25/05/2013 The Film Review

Will come to be Film Review. What have we got apart from another

hangover film? As you cannot fail to know, we have the Hanover three

in which the wolf pack are reunited for reasons which can only be

We have something in the air, which is a heady look at post 68 Paris.

And we have 'Epic', an animated fantasy.

Let's start with the Hanover part three. At the beginning of the film,

all the characters from the previous films are brought together

under the spurious auspices to take one of their number to a Sunday in

which she can rehabilitate. It is basically just a very complicated

plot to get them all back together. They head off towards the self-

centred but on route John Goodman runs the Mostar road, kidnaps the

boring one, leaving the famous one, there only once and the dentist to

Did you hear that guy? He will kill dub, period. He is a cancer. He has

been a cancer since the first day we met him. Will hand him over to

this guy and then it is done. I need you. I cannot do this alone.

just going to say over the strange in out the other day. I wasn't sure

what I meant that now I think it This says that help. Headed you not

know it was from thin. I thought it You need to ride him back. You

would tell him that you are happy he is out and would love to see him.

You even know what is going on. I do. Phil is doing all the work,

and his assistant and you're sitting there like an idiot.

Due in the club you laughed. You laugh war during the club denied it

during the entire film. None of us watching the trailer, the bit with

the draft, the bit with the guy jumping of the building, the bit

with the guy hanging over the balcony, all of it is in the

trailer. Many see it like that, some of it is passingly funny. The

most depressing thing about the film is the second one was in many

ways a deeply offensive film. It was racist and obnoxious and stupid

and allowed. They had turned everything up to 11 and made it

more grotesque. In the case of this, it is like everyone involved has

lost the will to do it. They knew they have to, but they don't seem

to have any enthusiasm for it. Most have thought, I made this film

twice, I'm going to make an action movie. I am going to do a bunch of

stuff with stunts and car chases. You sit there watching it and

you think you're making Ocean's Eleven had forgotten what you are

making is this film. There were no the obnoxious jokes that make the

second when interesting enough to be annoying. I sat there in the

screening room with other people not enjoying it. It was silent. We

had been told at the beginning to stay at the end because there is a

bit at the end credits which the director had talked about. We all

sat there, not laughing through the film and then the credits came on

and there was a degassed. The sound of silence was utterly deafening.

You thought, I don't want to be here, apparently no-one on screen

all the home camera wanted to be here. Wouldn't be easier if I just

give them the money to do something else? I may just watch the first

run on DVD instead. Something in the air, that sounds

interesting. He is an interesting field. It is post 68. The French

title is after May, which kind of makes more sense. It follows the

stories of a bunch of young radicals. A policeman is injured

and as a result of this, several members of the group have to leave

the country. We follow our anti- hero and suck in London. The film

is very episodic. The director has said what he was inspired by is the

idealism of that period and the weight which all these strange

ideas can turn sour but at least people mended. I think what he

wants is for people to see this and think, maybe nowadays we have lost

some of that. I think the problem with

with these people to be interested in what they're doing. The problem

is he has a great sense of time and he clearly has an awful lot of

personal Mimi in this, but I think what he has forgotten to do is to

why these people are doing it. The people are fairly narcissistic and

seemed to have an easy access to money. They spoke endlessly and

spend a lot of time worrying about their art and reading pamphlets.

They discuss revolutionary politics but even as somebody who has a soft

spot for that kind of thing, after about an hour of it, it could a bit

boring. This film, and I know it is very old-fashioned of a linear

narrative, a series -- as a series of episodes that are so distracted

that you forget about. When a poor you had forgotten the reason they

have left the country. The detail is very precise. The storytelling

needed to be much stronger. What about 'Epic'? The story is,

there is a young Golec who has lost her mother and goes to live with

her father, who seems to be crazy. He believes that the forest is run

by little people. Turns out he is right in she is prickly turned into

one of the little people. Where are we? Oh, it's where this

guy lives. Most stompers just come and go but the sky is relentless.

Stompers? Like us, but beak and dumb and slow. Always bobbing on

things. He is my father.What happened? You got shunt? A Yes.

Seriously? It's been a weird day for everybody. Dad, I'm here. Just

I love the dog. Visually, it is very good. The interesting thing

about the film it is -- is that it is a treat to look at. It comes

from a book by William Joyce, whose books also lead to other films.

There's a star studded cast, Beyonce and Colin Farrell. The

problem is what it has, it is interesting and entertaining come

at the minute he is gone from the screen it is gone. In the same week

they are reissuing films which remind you just tell extraordinary

animation can be, just been diverting isn't quite enough.

not bad for a bank holiday. It is exactly that. For a wet bank

holiday it will keep people entertained. Is fairly innocuous

and there are some strong heroines. What it doesn't have is any staying

power. It will not become anyone's favourite film, partly because the

title is so forgettable. It is not the title they should have gone

with. 'The Great Gatsby' is a great title. Isn't it?That is your best

film of the week. You should go and see it. It has really divided

people. I love the novel. Baz Luhrmann has taken interesting

twist with it. It is a take on Gatsby. It is very overcooked, but

I think it is a very honest take. People have said it is loud and

noisy and somehow fatuous and doesn't have the soul of the novel.

It doesn't have the soul of the novel, but it takes the story

seriously enough to see how it goes in this way. My feeling is that it

will introduce a whole new generation to the novel. Part of

the novel is about the despicable access. Baz Luhrmann is greater

that. He has absolutely said that the reason it has relevance now is

it because it is about massive spending as a run-up to society

fallen apart. The difference between the rich and the poor is so

great. Your DVD pick his one of the best movies of that week, 'Django

Unchained'. There is great stuff in it. There is no doubt that Quentin

Tarantino knows how to direct set pieces. He gets great performers at

of people. I don't think it is a serious film about slavery, but it

doesn't need to be. As you mentioned before, and as with all

Quentin Tarantino films, what he needs is a producer standing over